What is ACTA? ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. A new intellectual property enforcement treaty being negotiated by the United States, the European Community, Switzerland, and Japan, with Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and Canada recently announcing that they will join in as well.

Why should you care about ACTA? Initial reports indicate that the treaty will have a very broad scope and will involve new tools targeting “Internet distribution and information technology.”

What is the goal of ACTA? Reportedly the goal is to create new legal standards of intellectual property enforcement, as well as increased international cooperation, an example of which would be an increase in information sharing between signatory countries’ law enforcement agencies.

As most/all of you know, I LARP, RP and generally write and draw a fair bit. So I thought that I should probably put for reference here how I go IC, something most of you actually *interested* in this kind of thing will have already read, but is probably good to have down here for future reference.

As a warning, I may sound slightly crazy here, then again, what's new?

So for those of you who still read this, you'll know that I am somewhat of an artist, however as came up in a conversation yesterday a lot of people have only seen my sketches, asking if I work only in pencil and paper, so I thought I'd make a post to show what happens when I really put time into a piece...

Warning, this is long, with *very* large pictures. I hope you enjoy them, though!

Edit: Rats! Sorry guys! I put in a livejournal cut but it didn't appear to work, I apologise!

So I kept having ideas for a modern maelstrom, leading to one old piece of fic and one much newer extract...

A modern time, where the maelstrom had broken up and started drifting over the world in pockets, forming a web of power over the lands. This shift in themaelstrom was reflected in the magic, allowing it to become more freeform, the first discovery being that the web of maelstrommic energy could carry messages, the second being an adaption of Talismancy and Sorcery, Technomancy. From here, the web of implications grew, and there were some who learnt to use this to their benefit...

So I've been drawing a lot of comics recently and the scanning and submitting makes them look fuzzy and doesn't really do them justice, thus an alternative is needed. However the problem is balancing the time taken to create it with how good it looks, thus the poll.

By Shaded I meant 'coloured and shaded', the most work intensive of the lot. Alternatively, Post what you think would work in the comments.